-[The Fear Of Blood Tends To Create Fear For The Flesh - Hiei Jaganshi]-
CHAPTER SEVEN: Bombardment Of A Forced Decision
"I was hoping you would understand, so I had all of your belongings brought here." Koenma said, a look of guilt across his face as he glanced at Kurama from me.
"Y-your're not serious, are you Koenma?" I heard Yusuke manage to ask after a few moments, shock throughout his whole voice.
"No." Koenma said, looking at Yusuke from me, and he didn't look back at me. "All of her belongings are in the main store rooms until we know where to put her." It was like I wasn't even in the room anymore.
"Did you even think to ask her what she wanted?!" Yusuke demanded, walking up to the desk as he began to glare at the toddler ruler. Yes, it was exactly like I wasn't even in the room.
"I just did." Koenma said, a slightly taken back tone to his voice as Yusuke glared at him.
"No you bloody didn't!" Yusuke snapped back. I managed to drag myself to my feet, ignoring the agonising pain in my leg as I put weight on it, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as when I woke up to it being broken in the first place. My movement went unnoticed by Yusuke and Koenma as I began to leave the room, feeling Kurama touch my shoulder.
"Meia, sit back down before you break what has healed." I heard him say quietly, but I was too bitter, too upset to listen to reason, shrugging him off and leaving the room. The door didn't close as fast as it should have as I pushed it shut behind me, continuing to hobble onwards, heading down the end of the corridor to the left and beginning to make my way out of this place. Unfortunately for me, my body could only take enough pain to get me twenty meters down the corridor, then I felt my leg and ankle suddenly break again, causing me to gasp suddenly and crumble against the wall. I reluctantly sat myself against the wall, hearing someone run down the corridor from a doorway further along where I was heading, and continue running down the corridor. I didn't see anything more than red skin and a leopard skin loincloth. I shut my eyes slowly as I forced the pain back, resting my head against the wall at my back as I heard a door open several moments later. I didn't move an inch as I heard footsteps approaching, remaining with my eyes closed as I heard the footsteps come to a halt just a meter away from me, and then I heard the sound of them sitting down after a few moments. They said nothing and neither did I, I couldn't care less about anything anymore.
"I'm sorry about this, Meia." I heard them say after a couple of minutes, Kurama's voice. There was such a sincerity in his voice that I couldn't be angry with him. The only person I could be angry with, was that transforming toddler.
"It's not your fault." I whispered, hearing him shift slightly. I could almost hear Yusuke still shouting at Koenma, which was strange, he didn't know me really from the next person he'd have met, so it puzzled me that he was to mad over what Koenma said. There was nothing more said, I only flinched on the odd occasion that my leg flared in pain, remaining in a state of silence as I sifted through my thoughts slowly. It was clear there would be no apartment to return to, whether I took my stuff back or not, it was unsaid, but I knew the lease was canceled as well, everything was taken down, and if i decided to take my chances against the people that were either going to lock me up in jail or kill me just because I might be dangerous. I was hoping you would understand, who the hell would understand what he hoped I would do when you get told, Nice to meet you, just letting you know you're some unnamed monster and because of that we will likely kill you if you don't agree to be tied on a leash until further notice?!
"I want out." I said quietly a few minutes later, hearing Kurama shift fractionally, but he said nothing. I flinched as I shifted my leg fractionally, hearing Kurama get to his knees after a few moments.
"I assume you rebroke your leg." I heard him say, but I remained silent and motionless. "Well, I suppose I had best get you down to the infirmary and get it looked at." I felt him pick me up again after a few moments, feeling the severe pain in my leg intensify suddenly, but I ignored it with difficulty, remaining with my eyes closed as I refused to even look at the beings around, the building, I hated it.
"What about that Koenma?" I asked bitterly, hearing Kurama remain silent for a moment.
"It doesn't really matter, and Hiei knows where to find us." He said. I thought about that for a few moments, then just decided to scrap the information, it didn't matter to me.
"Has Lord Koenma finished with his talk with her?" Came an unfamiliar voice, but I didn't care about it, feeling Kurama place me on the bed again.
"Well, she's listened to about as much of it as she's going to take." I heard Kurama say with an edge of a wry smile as I looked down at my legs, seeing a purple-skinned being step into my peripheral vision. "She may have broken her leg again, could you reset the complete cast?"
"Oh, don't tell me that!" The purple begin said as I saw – her – lean over to the table on the far side of the cubicle and grab what looked to be a rather large cast saw. "She didn't walk on it, did she?"
"Yes, I did." I cut in petulantly, seeing the being look at me instantly – I didn't like people speaking about me as if I wasn't even in the room.
"Well, it does look like I'll be resetting the cast for you, Miss, it'll be a bit painful when I get to resetting it." The being said, causing me to feel a little bit better at her talking to me now. I let her begin to cut the cast from my leg, feeling Kurama watching me without a shift in gaze as I began to think again. I looked down at the cast as the being – who I gathered was a female shade demon called Ritsuko – my irritation seemed to be dragging the disbelief from me, I was accepting that there were slight things that I was unaware of, she just looked like another person that had fallen into a giant tank of purple dye when she was a child, she called herself a shade demon when she introduced herself properly. I could see a lot of bruises, a lot of stitches, and a lot of strange marks over the skin of my leg, and there were a lot of lumps where the breaks clearly were. I heard Ritsuko sigh wearily as I flinched at a stitch pulling fractionally. "I thought so. You'll have to hang tight, I'll go get the anaesthetic." She said, beginning to leave the room. I looked up at Kurama after a few moments, seeing him sitting on the stool that was next to the bed, a thoughtful look across his face as he watched me. I looked away from him after a moment, returning my gaze to my disfigured leg.
"Kurama." I said quietly, hearing him shift slightly. "Are they really going to kill me?" I asked. There was no point in mentioning incarceration, that was not the one I was beginning to worry about.
"I'm not sure." I heard Kurama reply thoughtfully after a few moments, feeling his gaze upon the side of my face as I remained silent. "It's a possibility, unfortunately ... It's more than likely that Koenma had presented the best negotiation he could by requesting your cooperation."
"But I didn't do anything!" I snapped, hearing him shift slightly as I closed my eyes wearily. "Sorry. I didn't—"
"No offence taken, I'd be just as upset if I were in your situation." I heard Kurama say quietly, causing me to nod slightly in thanks. For some strange reason, Kurama seemed to make me feel a little better. I didn't quite understand it, but I knew he was trustable. "It appears you needed time for this to sink in a little." I heard him say, causing me to reluctantly nod. I definitely didn't accept it, there was no way I was going to accept it, but ... for the fact that I was put in a situation where I was being forced to do something I did not want, that was sinking in, much to my reluctance. I saw Ritsuko come back after a few minutes, seeing her with a fair few items with her, and one large phial of what I gathered to be the anaesthetic. I eyed the phial of clear liquid oddly as she held it over my leg, seeing her smile at me in an encouraging manner.
"It's a diluted mixture, it's not going to make your whole body numb, alright?" She said, causing me to glance at Kurama. He said nothing, causing me to reluctantly nod – I trusted him more than the demon. I cringed as the liquid came in contact with my leg, feeling it begin to fill the cuts and stitching holes, a horrid cold sensation was what I got over the rest of my leg. I saw her pull the phial away after a few moments, paying attention to what exactly she was doing – I knew for a fact that something had been done to me to get my leg to heal as fast as it had originally, and I wanted to know what that was, I just so happened to be unconscious the last time. She began to go through the bandages and strips of gauze that she had brought as well, appearing to be sorting them out for better placing. "It'll be about ten minutes before it kicks in, so don't worry too much." Ritsuko said, causing me to nod fractionally, then frown slightly as I heard approaching running.
"What's that?" I asked, knowing I wasn't hearing things as I saw Kurama snap his gaze to the door immediately. I felt my nerves suddenly twitch at the cautious look across his face, causing me to snap my gaze to the door as it suddenly slammed open. I flinched as I saw a huge looking person walk into the infirmary room, but he wasn't ... human, his eyes looked like they belonged to a snake instead, and he had fangs. He had black hair and red eyes, and he had a sword in his grip as he began to approach me.
"Well, well, baby doll, it looks like I'm going to enjoy killing a beauty like you." The being said, his gaze upon me and nowhere else.
"Excuse me! Get out of here this instant! You can't be in here!" Ritsuko shouted at the being as he approached me, seeing him glare at the woman as I saw Kurama get off his chair and move in front of me, a glare across the glimpse of his face that I saw.
"Sorry, hag, I'm under King Yama's orders to kill this girl, her seventy two hours are up." The being said, looking back at me after a moment and pushing past Ritsuko as she tried to push him out of the infirmary. I watched as the huge demon continued to approach me and Kurama, feeling purely intimidated by his sheer size, four foot one compared to a seven foot being, that's nearly double my height! "Get outta the way pretty boy, I've got no problem with you, I'm just doin' my job." The being said, but Kurama didn't move an inch.
"I suggest that you leave." Kurama said in a civilised tone of voice, but there was something behind his words that made me nervous.
"Me? Leave?" The being scoffed, then he began to laugh at the top of his lungs. "I don't think so." He said, suddenly flicking his sword up so it was against Kurama's neck. "Now move, before I accidentally slit your throat."
"I suggest that you preserve your life and leave now, you won't be killing her." Kurama said in the same civilised manner. I saw the being continue to stare at Kurama's face, then I suddenly flinched as I saw the sword the being was holding suddenly come straight at me. I managed to move out of the way in time to miss being impaled in the heart, but I felt sudden pain through my hand as I heard the sword stab through steel and stone, gasping in pain suddenly. I heard a sudden crash as I heard someone punch someone, feeling the pain suddenly rise again, feeling the sword suddenly torn out of my hand as I fell from the bed, gasping in pain as I hit the floor as a whole lot of crashing and banging echoed throughout the room.
"Youra, stop! You're out of line!" Came the voice of the Teenager version of Koenma, causing me to snap my gaze up immediately, seeing someone dressed in complete black standing just in front of me, his sword blocking the one that belonged to the being I gathered was called Youra, who was standing just before the person in front of me, staring back at him from a glance at me every now and then. I could see the teenage version of Koenma standing to the left, and Yusuke was standing with his hands straight out in front of him, one hand holding his other which was held like his hand was a gun, glaring at Youra. Kuwabara was to the side helping Kurama up, who had a hand to the side of his face over a gash.
"No, Koenma sir, I've been given orders to dispose of that girl, your spirit detectives however are the one's out of line!" Youra spat, leering down at me past the person that was standing between us.
"She's only known about this for a freaking hour, you stupid bastard!" Yusuke spat.
"It's been seventy two hours since the order was given, she is going to die." Youra seethed, glaring at me.
"Unless you agree to remain under constant watch, we can't do anything!" I heard Koenma say, a sharp edge to his voice from caution. I bit into my lip again as I remained silent and motionless, my gaze flicking between Koenma and Youra quickly.
"Don't be stupid, Onna, you've only got one choice." The voice of the person with his sword blocking Youka's said, causing me to look at him immediately as I recognised his voice – he was the one that had been standing on the other side of the curtain. "Do you want to live, or die?"
"Hiei! What're you—" Kuwabara began shouting, but he was cut off as Kurama held a hand to silence him. I stared at the black-clad man standing in front of me for several moments, then hung my head as I reluctantly came to a decision.
"Fine." I said after several moments, closing my eyes as I felt just, chained down and manipulated. "I agree ... Koenma."
